On the Statement about Agrippa in Photius

The Greek says this. “…. and brings it down to the end, to Agrippa, the seventh of the house of Herod, the last of the kings of the Jews….”. This is absolutely certainly the meaning given by the case endings.

The Greek word APXH αρχη archê does not mean the quality of being a king or having royal status. It means either effective power over territory or delegated authority over a nation. (Think of the title Exilarch. Remember that in the opera Salome keeps reminding Herod that he is not a king but only Tetrarch, whereas she is Prinzessin von Judäa and therefore royal). This is what was given and increased. I suppose this means his recognised territory was increased. We are not told how he became king, but from the context, he was always a king, before Claudius did anything.

To clarify. It does not say he was made king of the Jews by Claudius. It says he was king of the Jews already, but Claudius gave him some effective power.

Just a thought. The Greek word “teleutê” meaning “end” [here in the genitive case, teleutês] is the noun equivalent of the verb “teteleuthê” meaning “It is finished”, the word uttered by Jesus. [The Greek says “It has been finished” or “It has ended” (perfect), not “It was finished” or “It ended” (preterite). Unless you live in North America. The Microsoft system says “Windows finished repairing your connection” when what is meant must be “Windows has finished etc.”. Sigh]. The choice of word by Justin might be significant. If so, the implication might be that with the death of Jesus, Priesthood and Prophethood are removed to Heaven, and with the death of Agrippa, Kingship is removed to Heaven. Thus all three qualities of Moses are occulted. The Tabernacle has manifested, done its work, and been occulted again after the successful end.

Although is not known for certain if the writer of the book of Revelation had any genuine information, none of those that are dubious about the book say it is entirely wrong. There are echoes in that book of the revelation of the Tetragrammaton in its full meaning. I said a bit on that in the unfinished article on the throne.

Two important observations. The four streams of water flow INTO the hexagon and spread out, as it says, “watering the whole earth”. So the hexagon is the created world, as you say. In that case, the curved line might be the missing seventh dimension.

If the ram is Moses, he stands above the material world and above the four rivers, the manifestation of the Torah as supporter of creation. The tree with fruit is then the single heavenly Torah with its multiple and diverse fruit, as often depicted to this day. Creation starts at the date of nought degrees of Aries. The numerical value of t.et-lamed-he, t.ale, the name of the sign of Aries, is 44. (And the Tetragrammaton has four letters). And Moses has ram’s horns [Exodus XXXIV:29-35]. Note all the fours in the symbolism on the throne. Is this one of the reasons why there was no objection to the invention of the concept of four books of the Gospel?